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A Guide to Early Irish Law (Early Irish Law Series, vol. 3)

Fergus Kelly · Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies · 1988

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Book
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Fergus Kelly
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 0901282952.

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EstablishedEarly Irish law was expounded by a professional class of jurists (brehons) rather than enacted by kings, and judgments were enforced through sureties and distraint of property rather than by public officers.DisputedGaelic Ireland was a functioning example of a stateless, polycentric legal order based on private property and voluntary enforcement.